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July 2011
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Happy Independence Day We Will Resume Regular Posting on Tuesday, July 5th
Just Released Thunderbird 3.1.11 – June 21st Thunderbird 5.0 – June 28th Coming Soon Thunderbird 6 Beta – July 5th* Thunderbird 7 Earlybird – July 5th* Future Releases Thunderbird 6 Final Release – August 16th Thunderbird 7 Beta – August 16th Thunderbird 8 Early Bird – August 16th * As part of the new Rapid Release Schedule, dates listed for Aurora and Beta builds reflect when the code merge is to begin. The actual release to that particular channel may vary by several days. See this post for more details.
Just Released None Schedule this Coming Week Firefox 6 Beta – July 5th* Firefox 7 Aurora – July 5th* Future Releases Firefox 3.6.19 – August 16th Firefox 6 Final Release – August 16th Firefox 6 for Mobile Final Release – August 16th Firefox 7 Beta – August 16th* Firefox 8 Aurora – August 16th* Firefox 7 Final Release – September 27th Firefox 7 for Mobile Final Release – September 27th * As part of the new Rapid Release Schedule, dates listed for Aurora and Beta builds reflect when the code merge is set to begin. The actual release to that…
One fix is relatively simple. I set mine at 10. http://www.ghacks.net/2007/02/25/reduce-firefox-memory-consumption/ Go get it.
In Thunderbird 3.1 when you right-clicked on an address and selected Add to Address Book it would automatically add the address into your Collected Addresses book. In Thunderbird 5.0 though the behavior has changed in now that it places the address in the Personal Address Book and the name is only the user name. However, if you double-click on the star next to the email address you will get this pop-up where you can specify the contact’s name and which address book to place the contact within.
Last week a new feature landed on the Firefox 7 Nightly Builds. Bug 665580 removes the ‘http://’ from the address bar and just displays the remainder of the URL and also omitting the trialing /. So in Firefox 7 the blog address would appear in the address bar as blog.ffextensionguru.com (the bolding of the domain name is part of the new Domain Highlighting in Firefox 6). This has seen some interesting discussions in both Firefox Builds and on Bugzilla. It appears Chrome and Opera (but not IE9) are already doing this and of course Firefox has to follow suit now….